Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Adjust All Your MP3s to Similar Volume Levels

The issue: Picture this – You’re listening to soft, soothing music… which then gets turned into ear piercing tune the moment the song changes!  The freeware solution: Rather than constantly scrambling for the volume button, you can try out ‘Mp3Gain’.  This lovely piece of freeware adjusts songs in your MP3 collection to have similar sound [...]

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5 FREE Solutions for Data Recovery

Everybody has had that moment of dread where you discover the file you need is corrupt, unreadable, or accidentally deleted.  Here are 5 pieces of software which can save the day.  The thing about recovery software is that they don’t necessarily use the same methods to get back your data – so if one doesn’t [...]

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How to Remap Your Keyboard

I recently switched laptops at work and I just could NOT get used to the annoying fact that my delete button has shifted so far away that its became noticeably difficult to use. Rather than try to adapt (or sprain my hand), I am using Sharpkeys, which is an excellent piece of freeware which allows [...]

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How to Create Your Own Patches for ANYTHING

The issue of sending large files across has always been a hard one to tackle.  We’ve previously talked about uploading to services like Yousendit as viable solutions, but here’s another approach you can take which may be much quicker.  PatchOnClick allows you to send and receive updates to large files without having to send or [...]

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How to Give You Right Mouse Button Super Powers

  Press right-click inside windows and you open up a typical context menu which looks something like this… Install Lopesoft.com’s FileMenuTools (free or course) and your menu will look something like this… More than just shortcuts, this neat piece of freeware has some really powerful functions built in.  Here are a few of my favourite [...]

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